Re: [Cz-L] Questions about arranged marriages

From: schaje kohut <skskohut_at_gmail.com_at_nowhere.org>
Date: Sun, 1 Sep 2019 19:31:00 +0300
To: "Catherine.neykov" <catherine.neykov_at_wanadoo.fr>
Reply-To: schaje kohut <skskohut_at_gmail.com>


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dear cathrine
also my grandfather max reiss born 1873 in zuravno (galizien)' maried anna
frucht (born 1876) from czernovitz. after the wedding the lived in lvov.
there was born there children' josef and edgar. after the first war the
moved rto austria.also some of the frucht famili came by this time to
austria. i dont know why/ bu sure is that from g-d is a wife to here
husband.
regards
schaje kohut


Am So., 1. Sept. 2019 um 18:11 Uhr schrieb Catherine.neykov <
catherine.neykov_at_wanadoo.fr>:

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> Dear friends from Czernowitz,
>
> I am Catherine Neykov from Paris France. I apologies in advance for my
> mistakes in english and hope that I will get understood.
>
> I am a small (but true) writer and after a two years break working on a
> novel about violin, I have decided to try again to tell the (long and
> sad) story of my family. I found new information on Jewishgen ad read
> several books. Among them was the very well documented : =E2=80=9CLe
> crepus=
> cule
> des lieux=E2=80=9D of Florence Haymann, member of the group.
>
> She writes that arranged marriages used to happen between bucovian boys
> and galician girls. More precisely, she says that the intermediaries,
> used to get those girls to come from Galicia to Czernowitz and get
> married there.
>
> Although my grandparents lived in Suceava, and not Czernowitz, I think
> that it is what happened to my grandmother, Pessel Burta, because :
>
> - In the family tree, my father just mentioned the name of one aunt, the
> one also married in Suceava. But he wrote that the family include
> =E2=80=9C=
> 12 or
> 13=E2=80=9D children. He did not know the names of the others. Exactly as
> i=
> f he
> had never met them.
>
> - The registers of Suceava on Jewishgen (or anywhere else) do not know
> other Burta than my grandma and her sister. But it is always mentioned
> about them : =E2=80=9Cparents from Rudnik Galicia=E2=80=9D and the first
> na=
> mes of the
> parents : Isak and Pearl.
>
> - I find the name of the Burta family in registers of Rudnik nad Sanem
> and its neighborhood.
>
> [
>
> Now, here are my questions :
>
> - Does anybody know something about those arranged marriages of girls
> that intermediaries were searching in Galicia ?
>
> - Why so far (about 550 kilometers) ?
>
> - Why did the girls accept to live so far from their families ? Were
> they poor ?
>
> - Who was paying the intermediary ?
>
>
>
> I thank you very much in advance for the help you can provide and whish
> you a good end of summer.
>
> Best regards
>
> Catherine Neykov
>
>
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